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The Borghese Vase in the Daru Gallery, Louvre Museum

The Borghese Vase is a monumental bell-shaped krater sculpted in Athens from Pentelic marble in the second half of the 1st century BC as a garden ornament for the Roman market;[1] it is now in the Louvre Museum.[2]

  1. ^ Two further versions of the vase were found among other marbles in the wreck of a ship bound from Athens in the time of Sulla (Haskell and Penny 1981:315).
  2. ^ The Louvre Archived March 11, 2007, at the Wayback Machine

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